Percy Jackson and the Olympian Series: The Sea of Monsters By Rick Riordan

The Sea of Monsters is the second book in the Percy Jackson series.  When Percy's friend, Grover Underwood, is captured by a cyclopes named Polyphemus, Percy and his other good friend, Annabeth Chase leaves Camp Half-Blood to search for his friend.  Grover is drawn to the cyclopes because it's scent is so similar to that of the nature god, Pan, in which Grover went searching for.  In this book, Luke is introduced again as an evil character trying to re-build Kronos's body.  Luke also poisons the tree of Thalia, Zeus's daughter, in order to weaken the camps magical borders.  He is repeatedly attempting to stop Annabeth and Percy because he knows that the cyclopes protects the golden fleece.  This fleece was supposedly able to restore any area to perfect condition.  It did this while also bringing Thalia out of the tree in which she was imprisoned because Zeus wasn't supposed to be allowed to have kids after world war II so instead of killing his daughter, he imprisoned her in a tree.

The book is set in modern day America.  this makes it easy to relate to because the characters talk very similar to us and the book is written in first person so the reader can see the way Percy thinks which if I were in his shoes, would probably be how I thought too.  It is mainly set in New York which is one of the places I would like to travel to in the future.  Then Percy and his friend travel down to the Bermuda Triangle which is where the Sea of Monsters is located  Most loose ends were tied up at the end so I did not have as many questions as I thought I would but I was wondering whether Hades had ever had demigod children because as one of the Big Three gods, he is the only one that the author never mentions whether he had any kids.  It mentioned Percy was Poseidon's son and Thalia was Zeus's daughter, but never anything about Hades.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has read the first book which I would also recommend to anyone.  I think the whole series so far captivates the reader and surprises them as to what will happen next. I am only about half-way through the series but so far I am enjoying the books and hope that if anyone reads them after reading this, enjoy them too.